Night Owl Cards

(Welcome to the month when summer dies. I know that I should appreciate August more than I do. Unfortunately, the spectre of school has been killing this month since I was 5 years old. Down with school! Up with cards! Time for Cardboard Appreciation. This is the 156th in a series): I'm afraid this is another Cardboard Un-Appreciation post. The only reason I tolerated this card in my collection -- a card of a high school athlete in his baseball academy uniform -- is because he was a Dodger prospect. Martin had made it all the way to Double A in the Dodger chain. But outside of this card, I have only one other card of Martin (fortunately he's wearing Dodger blue). So this card, which I received from someone else in a trade, remained in my collection. But now Martin has been traded to the Phillies in the Shane Victorino deal. While I still hang on to my Josh Lindblom cards (also now a Phillie) and Leon Landry cards (now a Mariner), I do so only because they are undoubte...